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Dacopan project                                MEETING MINUTES
                                               May 6th, 2004

Meeting
        May 6th, 2004, at 15:15

        Department of Computer Science,
        State University of Petrozavodsk,
        Room 138

Attendance
        Carlos Arrastia Aparicio
        Jari Aarniala
        Jarkko Laine
        Jonathan Brown, chairman
        Turjo Tuohiniemi, instructor
        Vesa Vainio
        Alejandro Fernandez Rey, secretary        

        Andrei Ananin
        Dmitry Korzun, instructor
        Kirill Kulakov
        Mikhail Kryshen
        Viktor Surikov
        Andrei Salo


Absent
        Inkeri Verkamo


1. Start
        Mr. Brown started the meeting at 15:30


2. Assessment of the situation
        Second global meeting in Petrozavodsk. Integration testing is in 
        process, and some bug fixing and implementing of optional features is 
        being done.
        
3. Discussion
        
        3.1 Integration testing:
        
        P-group mentioned that sometimes the loading of a PEF into the Animator 
        failed. A reason for that might be that the XML DTD location must be 
        included in the classpath. Mr. Aarniala will show the P-group how to add 
        the folder that contains the classpath.
        
        According to P-group's experience on the tcpdump logs sent by Mr. Kojo, 
        those contain the packet exchange information corresponding to the 
        networking scenarios, so they can be used to validate the information 
        present in the PEF generated by the Analyzer and the information 
        visualized in the Animator. The tcpdump tool will be used to format 
        those logs into a human readable form that could be used during this
        integration test. These logs will be printed on paper.

        Mr. Kryshen will try to get extra tcpdump logs using a Windows 
        environment tool that could also be used for testing.
        
        A list of bugs and fixes will be added to the CVS repository. Its 
        objective is that any member that notices a bug can add it to the file 
        and the developer or developers responsible for this code can check the 
        file regularly and correct the problem. 
        
        3.2 Localization
        
        Technically the localization of the Animator module is finished, but the 
        translations still will take some time. The russian language translation 
        has priority, as P-group members are the only qualified persons to do 
        it. It will be done at the beginning of next week by a small team.
        
        3.3  Code freezing date
        
        Some date should be set as code freezing date. This issue could be 
        discussed in next meeting, depending on the state of the code.
        
        3.4 Manuals and user documentation
        
        A linux manual will be done for the Analyzer module. For the Animator 
        module, HTML format is preferred, and it could be accessible through the 
        Help buttons in the Menu bar. The official document could then contain 
        an installation manual.
        
        
        3.5 Demonstration of the implemented software
        
        Some skeleton of the presentation will be created in case it is needed. 
        The presentation may cover not only a demonstration of the software but 
        as well an explanation on which work methods were adopted for such a 
        distributed project. It seems wise that the presenter or presenters 
        would be russian speakers, as all english should be translated. Of 
        course, everyone can be asked particularly. It will be discussed in 
        next meeting.
        
        3.6 Meeting with PetrSU Student Union
        
        The actual contents or format of the meeting is not clear. It might 
        basically consist on meeting the Student Union leader and maybe some 
        foreign students as well.
        
                
4. Action points
        - Get printed version of tcpdump logs.
        - Continue integration testing.
        - Begin bug reporting and continue fixing errors.
        - Some brainstorming about the manuals can be done.
        - Next meeting will be held on Monday May 10th at 15:15.

            
5. End
        Mr. Brown ended the meeting at 16:37

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